Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 11
"The ropes were of silk, the anchor of gold, And everywhere riches and pomp untold,"
Who acts: ropes, riches · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ropes, riches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 silk | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ropes | det |
| 3 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 silk | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 silk | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 anchor | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anchor | det |
| 9 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 silk | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anchor | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 untold | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 untold | cc |
| 14 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 riches | advmod |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 untold | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pomp | cc |
| 17 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riches | conj |
| 18 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silk | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 silk | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 silk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the ropes | of silk and the anchor of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | riches and pomp | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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